Boris is doing exactly what he should be doing which is listening to his advisers who are experts in their particular field and recommending the best course of action as the situation changes. Those advisers also have a team of other subject matter experts behind them providing imput. During the floods in Yorkshire Boris was criticised for not being visible wandering around in his waders. Now he is visible he's accused of waffling. WTF do you propose he should be doing?
I've skimmed through the Imperial report and it is so full of "we assume this, we assume that" that it's almost meaningless. Chris Whitty was asked today what he thought the death rate would be in the UK. He explained that any prediction now would be nothing more than speculation since no-one knows with any certainty how many people have actually been exposed to the virus. Their tests to date have mostly concentrated on patients requiring hospital treatment which is basically a self-selecting sample. There could be thousands more people who have been exposed yet experienced very mild or no symptoms at all and the only way to provide a meaningful estimate would be to include the results of mass testing for antibodies. Something they don't have yet.
It was a tactful way of saying if you don't start with known credibly accurate data you might as well flip a coin.
I admire his honesty and refusal to be drawn into speculation and guesswork although I'm not sure the media feel that way, but stuff them.
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